My camera. Or much of anything these days. Don’t ask me where the scissors are located. Or the trash bags. Or the remote control for the garage door opener. (Sigh). That’s because I’m in the midst of unpacking. Zillions of boxes. (Well, almost 400….but it feels like
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Everyone here has been craving German food lately. Son #1 has been pleading with me all week to make traditional-style schnitzel. Today seemed like the perfect day to start a new “New Year’s day” tradition. Son #1 loves to make his own schnitzel-on-a-roll sandwiches for school and
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Speaking of baskets, (see my last post) here’s a basket of “Christmas” wonderful! I simply adore Longaberger baskets (even though I actually own only two small ones.) Until now. A super-sweet, secret Santa surprised me with this gorgeous Medium Market Basket the other day. (Thank you so
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Christmas! Although I admit with the temperatures in the low 80’s during the day and dipping only into the upper 60’s at night, it certainly doesn’t feel much like Christmas (sigh….). But I’m trying to get that Christmasy feeling just the same. It certainly helped to hear
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of our furry friends. I did not put Poppy there. She burrowed in between the folds of my quilt all by herself, thank you very much. And then she was indignant when I questioned her about it. Sheesh. My self-appointed, Quality Control Manager, Tuffy, at his usual post.
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I think one of these is on the agenda for later today. Yummo. I saw a suspicious looking box wrapped in a Wrights Bakery plastic bag and hidden behind some condiments in the fridge this morning. Oh boy, oh boy…..looks like its going to be a wonderful day!
Read more →Sometimes, everyone just needs to get away. Unplug. Decompress. Rest. Relax. Unwind. When the opportunity presented itself at the very last minute for us to do just that, we hesitated only a minute and then decided to GO. It was a good decision. I left my laptop
Read more →Birgit and her family arrived from Germany last week. And while they’re here, we’re on hiatus doing some serious “summering” with them. (“Summer-ing” is the act of doing all those fun activities you do in the summer or while on vacation.) We went out on the boat
Read more →It’s been a good week. The retreat at Scrap and Sew last week was energizing and my creativity mojo has been in high gear since then. Our visit here at home with Sue and Herb Hausmann this past week was wonderful, too. They are such terrific folks, and
Read more →After six very intense weeks of packing, cleaning, moving, remodeling, and unpacking, I feel as though I’m finally coming to the surface for some air. I have been so single-minded about getting our family moved to our new home that I’ve let many things slide for the
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